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Shared Parental Leave and Pay: New Guidance
Shared Parental Leave and Pay: New Guidance The Government has published guidance on shared parental leave and pay for both employers and employees. The guidance explains when an employee may be elig...
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Gender Pay Gap Reporting: Consultation Launched
...employment contract, a contract of apprenticeship or a contract personally to do work. However, it seeks views on whether the 250 employee threshold is appropriate, suggesting that it may apply a hi...
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Workplace covid tests: avoiding the legal and practical pitfalls
...employment or data protection laws. Click here to read Emily's article. This article was first published in Employment Law Journal
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Employment law reforms one step closer
...employment tribunal claims if their employer has not dealt with tips correctly. Employment Bill? It had been expected that these employment law reforms would be introduced via a wider Emplo...
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No Implied Term that Employee Receiving PHI Benefits Could Not be Dismissed
...employment contract that the employer would not terminate his employment, in the absence of misconduct or other repudiatory breach, if the effect of doing so was to remove his entitlement to PHI benef...
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Employer Wrong to “Blindly Accept” Occupational Health Opinion on Disability
...employment tribunal and EAT both held that unless the employer had good reason for forming a different view, it was entitled to rely on OH’s advice as to whether G was disabled. The Court of Appeal d...
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Can an employer’s failure to investigate a fabricated allegation amount to race discrimination?
...employment tribunal decided that that Mr Singh had made up the allegation but still upheld his race discrimination claim. However, it awarded no compensation on the basis that he had suffered no inju...
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Justifying Steps under Absence Management policies
...employment tribunal had been wrong simply to require the employer to justify the absence management policy itself. Facts In Buchanan v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Mr Buchanan, a servin...
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Kathy Scott
...Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) Kathy is an employment lawyer who advises both employers and individuals on all areas of UK employment law. She has significant experi...
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Volunteer Could Not Bring Disability Discrimination Claim
...employment". Employment was defined as "employment under a contract of service or of apprenticeship or a contract personally to do any work". Similar provisions are now contained in the Equality Act...
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FCA-regulated employee fairly dismissed for not being a “fit and proper person” after misleading employment tribunal
...employment tribunal An FCA-regulated firm was entitled to dismiss an employee for not being a “fit and proper person” after an employment tribunal ruled he lacked credibility when giving evidence.&nbs...
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Adam Murdoch
...employment and related issues. Prior to joining Doyle Clayton, Adam worked at another specialist employment law firm. What people say about Adam Adam works with HR t...
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Employer unaware of link between misconduct and disability still liable for discrimination
...employment tribunal upheld his claim of discrimination arising from disability. Mr Grosset produced medical evidence at the tribunal hearing indicating that there was a link between his miscondu...
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Employment Tribunal Judgment on Employer's Liability for Whistleblowing Claims, Ruled Incorrect
Employment Tribunal Judgment on Employer's Liability for Whistleblowing Claims, Ruled Incorrect The Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled that an employment tribunal was wrong to decide that an employe...
Job retention scheme bonus – further details provided
Job retention scheme bonus – further details provided The Government has published some more information about the job retention scheme bonus for employers who keep furloughed employees employed until...
Much ado about nothing: why the European Court ruling on employers spying on employees’ private communications is not what it seems
...Employment Practices Code deals specifically with monitoring at work. Employers who wish to monitor staff communications should identify a clear business reason for doing so, consider whether there a...
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Employers must have systems for recording daily working hours
Employers must have systems for recording daily working hours What does the new ruling from the European Court of Justice mean for employers?Employers will have to ensure they have procedures for reco...
Flexible furlough: Chancellor confirms changes to coronavirus job retention scheme
Flexible furlough: Chancellor confirms changes to coronavirus job retention scheme The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has provided more detail on changes to the coronavirus job retention scheme he announced...
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Furlough: what does it mean for redundancy dismissals?
...Employment Tribunal decisions but are a useful guide and ones which Employment Judges may consider when reaching decisions on future cases. What if an employee asks to be furloughed? In Mhindurwa ...
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Redundancy and Maternity Leave: Extent of Obligation to Offer Alternative Employment
...employment tribunal upheld both claims and the employer appealed to the Employment Appeal Tribunal. The employer argued that the obligation to offer an alternative vacancy was only triggered once it h...